I spent most of the past week in Jacksonville, FL. At the beginning of the week my 21 year old brother left for Spain and at the end of the week my older sister and her husband flew in from Kansas City for a visit.
On Tuesday I took my 1 and 4 year old brothers to the park in San Marco then came home and watched A Land Before Time. After the movie was done I took the next 30 minutes and explained to the two little guys how the dinosaurs eventually went extinct because of Reaganomics.
By Wednesday I got a little bored so I picked up my phone (as if I ever put it down) and called Ellie about getting together for a second date.
I am not sure if Ellie has bad eyesight or likes to hear the same jokes over and over but she agreed to let me take her out again.
Ellie agreed to meet Thursday night for dinner then we could try to buy tickets for the Corey Smith concert that evening.
After picking her up I asked if she wanted to try this new seafood restaurant "The Fishy Dish" that had recently opened at the beach. She then informed me that she was a vegetarian.
The conversation then went as follows...
Me: "Have you ever been to the doctor about that?"
Ellie: "About being a vegetarian? No. I just choose not to eat meat."
Me: "Oh, do you do it because it is healthier?"
Ellie: "No."
Me: "Do you do it because it is better for the animals?"
Ellie: "No."
Me: "Is it because of the treatment of the working conditions of the people in the meat industry?"
Ellie: "Nope."
Me:"Do you do it because it is better for the environment?"
Ellie: "Nope"
Me: "Are you attempting to reduce world starvation or political instability?"
Ellie: "Not at all"
Me: "Okay. Then why are you a vegetarian?"
Ellie: "The same reason almost all vegetarians are vegetarians..."
Me: "Which is..."
Ellie: "To annoy everyone around them."
At that moment I knew that I may be able to get past my fear of dating a girl who kept a library in her apartment for Ellie and I had far more in common than I originally thought.
We ended up just stopping by a street vendor for some Corn Dogs. Apparently Ellie keeps a strict vegetarian diet with the exception of fish, chicken, and beef.
The Corn Dogs took awhile to prepare and we were already late for the concert, so by the time we got to the convention center where the concert was being held the line was so long that we probably wouldn't get in for an hour or two and then we would likely have to sit in the far back row so I suggested just going back to her place and listening to Rod Stewart on Pandora. Ellie responded "not so fast." She then walked to the front of the line tapped the security guard on the shoulder and said excuse me sir my uncle is in there and needs us to bring this to him as she grabbed a prosthetic leg from her purse. The security guard let us both in and we got to skip the line, sit up front for free, and drink off of her pre-made concert mix she had put inside of Dustin. (Dustin-the name of her prosthetic leg)
On the way home she mentioned she was thinking about joining a gym and was curious what I thought of Jim's Gym because she saw my key chain that says I am a member. I told her I just keep that on my key chain so people think I work out often. She then admitted she does the same thing with keeping a library at her apartment so people thinks she reads a lot.
Will there be a date number 3? I can only hope...
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